Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
This book helps people become better listeners, better in challenging situations, better at helping people, and better at expressing a vision and selling that to the listeners. This is a must read for anyone in Product Management.
Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?
So, I went out on a limb and just picked up this on Audible in preparations for a road trip. It was a late night road trip, and honestly, I didn't want the car ride to end. Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan outlines practical ideas on...
The Infinite Game
Building on Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek's The Infinite Game doubles down on organizational mindset and builds the case for modern, agile organizations that are bottom-line aware with an attachment to the their purpose.
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
Unless you've been under a rock over the past several years, you have heard about psychological safety. Amy Edmundson and her team uncovered the impact of people feeling a sense of security on their work performance and the solutions they create.
Improving Agile Teams: Using Constraints to Unlock Creativity
Improving Agile Teams: Using Constraints to Unlock Creativity is a fun and very useful read by Paul Goddard.
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Tony's drive, tenacity, innovativeness, and desire to put people first is what I took away from this book. For this book, I got both the Kindle and Audible version -- I stopped reading it as soon as I heard Tony telling the story and hearing from the actual...
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
If you are looking to learn about the history of Scrum and the reason behind why the practices and approaches work, check out Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland and J.J. Sutherland.